Childhood Quotes - Page 4

• It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary... to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.

  Margaret Mead

  Birthday, Regret, Learning

  "Teacher's Treasury of Stories for Every Occasion". Book by Millard Dale Baughman, 1958.

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• He had a passion for cricket right from his childhood and liked nothing else but playing with the bat and the ball. I wanted him to study hard and get into a government service. But, he wanted to do something in cricket and earn a name for himself.

  Bill Vaughan

  Passion, Government, Names

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• It is a hopeless endeavour to unite the contrarieties of spring and winter; it is unjust to claim the privileges of age, and retain the play-things of childhood.

  Samuel Johnson

  Spring, Winter, Play

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1837). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq”, p.88

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• Each one could be a Jesus mild,
  Each one has been a little child,
  A little child with laughing look,
  A lovely white unwritten book;
  A book that God will take, my friend,
  As each goes out at journey's end.

  John Masefield

  Jesus, Children, Book

  John Masefield (1978). “Selected poems”, Not Avail

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• It was a great place to grow up. There were always kids around in our neighborhood. We had a basketball hoop in the back of our house, a little front yard where you could get touch football games going. I know you think of it as a big city, but it was fun for me to grow up in New Orleans. I remember it as a very normal childhood.

  Eli Manning

  Basketball, Football, Growing Up

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• There's a group I've been close to, since childhood. We spend a lot of time together.'.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Together, Groups, Time Together

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• Perhaps there lives some dreamy boy, untaught
  In schools, some graduate of the field or street,
  Who shall become a master of art,
  An admiral sailing the high seas of thought
  Fearless and first, and steering with his fleet
  For lands not yet laid down in any chart.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Art, School, Boys

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1073, Delphi Classics

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• We see these adolescents mourning for a lost childhood.

  David Elkind

  Mourning, Lost

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• Few sons attain the praise Of their great sires and most their sires disgrace.

  Homer

  Son, Ancestry, Praise

  Homer (1872). “The Iliad ...”, p.326

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• For me, however, that beloved, glowing little word happiness has become associated with everything I have felt since childhood upon hearing the sound of the word itself.

  Hermann Hesse

  Glowing, Sound, Littles

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• But still when the mists of doubt prevail,
  And we lie becalmed by the shores of age,
  We hear from the misty troubled shore
  The voce of children gone before.
  Drawing the soul to its anchorage.

  Bret Harte

  Children, Lying, Drawing

  Bret Harte (2016). “Poetical Works, Complete: Top American Novelist”, p.193, VM eBooks

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• When you finally go back to your old home, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood.

  Sam Ewing

  Home, Fatherhood, Nostalgia

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• Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

  Helen Keller

  Respect, Appreciation, Struggle

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.

  Susie Bright

  Inspirational, Motivational, Children

  Interview with Heidi Raykeill, www.literarymama.com. April 2004.

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• My major regret in life is that my childhood was unnecessarily lonely.

  Truman Capote

  Lonely, Regret, Life Is

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• Golf is a game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood.

  Samuel Johnson

  Golf, Games, Age

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• We cannot even recollect the actions of our infancy, our childhood is like something written on a slate and rubbed off.

  Vinoba Bhave

  Infancy Is, Action, Our Children

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• Boston's freeway system is insane. It was clearly designed by a person who had spent his childhood crashing toy trains.

  Bill Bryson

  Boston, Insane, Toys

  Bill Bryson (1989). “The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America”, p.154, VNR AG

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• I sailed through my childhood with a complete lack of any drama.

  Kate Adie

  Drama, Literature

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• If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood.

  Peter Handke

  Writing, Design, Storyteller

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• Well I was an asthmatic child. So that for most of my childhood I was in bed. Bedridden.

  Gerald Scarfe

  Children, Fatherhood, Bed

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• But when alcohol comes in, start running. Because there's a demon there, and it goes back to her childhood.

  David Gest

  Running, Alcohol, Demon

  "Love on the rocks". "Dateline" with Stone Phillips, www.nbcnews.com. February 6, 2004.

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• Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum.

  Thomas Szasz

  Fatherhood, Age, Shrinking

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• I had a great childhood.

  Tom Felton

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• My childhood is completely... when I look back, it was '50s in New York, upper-middle class, it was completely idyllic and golden and wonderful - sweet in every way.

  Peter Jurasik

  Sweet, New York, Class

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. November 18, 2002.

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